L3Harris Technologies is an American technology company, defense contractor, and information technology services provider serving government, defense, and commercial sectors. Within the space industry, L3Harris specializes in providing end-to-end satellite solutions, including spacecraft, payloads, and ground software, and is a key player in space domain awareness. They develop and manufacture space-qualified components like traveling wave tubes, reflectors, and optical systems, and they also contribute to missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Artemis II. L3Harris partners with organizations like NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and the Missile Defense Agency.
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L3Harris received a $919,000,000 contract earlier in the year to develop an 18-vehicle constellation for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite program.
Five missile-tracking satellites designed and built by L3Harris Technologies launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Four Wide-Field-of-View missile tracking satellites built by L3 Harris were carried for the Tracking Layer of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 constellation.
One L3Harris satellite and one Northrop Grumman satellite on USSF-124 are the first prototypes developed under the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
L3Harris developed the USSF-124 satellites using infrared imaging technology originally developed for weather imaging and Earth science missions.
The four L3Harris satellites on USSF-124 are part of the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 demonstration constellation.
The USSF-124 payload included five satellites built by L3Harris Technologies and one satellite built by Northrop Grumman.
L3Harris currently has a backlog of 50 satellites on order, including 34 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranches 1 and 2.
L3Harris Technologies announced the results on 2024-02-07 of a three-month demonstration of a compact Digital Beamforming Phased Array Antenna System (DPAAS).
L3Harris conducted its first demonstration of an electronic phased array ground antenna in 2021 under a Defense Innovation Unit contract focused on improving satellite communications for the U.S. Space Force.
L3Harris is developing the GeoXO imager under a $765,500,000 contract awarded in March 2023.
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts on 2024-01-16 to L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space for the Tracking Layer Tranche 2 constellation with a combined value of about $2,500,000,000.
Innoflight previously delivered T0 Tracking Layer hardware to L3Harris for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Space Development Agency awarded a prototype agreement to L3Harris Technologies last year to provide initial missile warning and missile tracking warfighting capability for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Innoflight is on contract with L3Harris Technologies to deliver key avionics including mesh network encryption/decryption, networking, processing, and precision timing for the SDA T1 Tracking Layer program.
Innoflight and L3Harris Technologies maintain a business relationship to support the PWSA T1 Tracking Layer program.
Prior to winning the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer contract, L3Harris designed, developed, and built four satellites in less than three years for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Tracking Layer program.
The four Tranche 0 satellites built by L3Harris will launch together with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) satellite.
L3Harris designed missile defense solutions to support the U.S. military’s effort to build a robust constellation of satellites to protect against hypersonic weapons with increased speed, unpredictable flight trajectories, and faint heat signatures.
L3Harris Technologies received a contract with a potential value of up to $919,000,000 to design and build 18 infrared space vehicles for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program.